Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The pipeline has been displaced to seawater and the Inch terminal has been degassed. As I said, that was a very old pipeline in the first place and I think it was already 40 years on the seabed. Accordingly, I do not think that infrastructure will be used. The decision was made on good energy grounds and there was much detailed consideration. The Department assessed all the potential uses and came back with a recommendation for decommissioning, so that is what we proceeded with. However, as I said, there will be other infrastructure in the Cork Harbour area for offshore wind, the conversion to green hydrogen, the ongoing operations in Whitegate and Aghada and indeed at Marino Point and the Verolme Dockyard. They are the key strategic sites in Cork that have a real future in this new energy future and we must consider what that is. We should not look back to what was there at Kinsale but look forward to what we will build instead.

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